Category: RECONSTRUCTION

If the Federal Army had stayed in the South longer, if the Reconstruction had lasted longer, if America didn't experience the century-long setback that came after the Federal Army left, what would black history look like now? ... Read More

Then, in 1875, federal army and the carpetbaggers leave, the KKK wins, Black Codes are put in place and the Jim Crow era begins. The Reconstruction is barely even mentioned in history textbooks ... Read More

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Wartime Reconstruction, presidential reconstruction (Andrew Johnson), radical reconstruction, reconstruction of the North — I had no idea there was more than one. A must-read for anyone interested in the post-Civil War era.

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